Loyola Law School’s 95th-annual Commencement Ceremony will feature a keynote address by former U.S. Rep. Tony Coelho (LMU ’64), architect of the Americans with Disabilities Act, when it convenes at 12 p.m. on Sunday, May 15, 2016 on the Westchester, Calif. campus of Loyola Marymount University (LMU).

Allan Ides ’79 already was an expert on the processes of the U.S. Supreme Court by the time he argued a pivotal Confrontation Clause case in front of the justices in 1988. As a clerk to Associate Justice Byron R. White from 1980-81, Ides was a first-hand witness to the inside operations of the court.

Senior Associate Dean Sean M. Scott’s innovative teaching methods have led to the development and implementation of Loyola's Master of Science in Legal Studies program for non-lawyers and other unique offerings.

For Jinouth Vasquez Santos ’14, an associate at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, the Resident Associate Program offered by Loyola Law School’s Career Development Center provided a pathway to a career in labor and employment litigation.

Kelly Muir ’16 enrolled in his first tax course at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles to learn more about the income tax process for his personal taxes, with no thought of concentrating on tax law for the long term. But each semester, Muir found himself gravitating toward tax courses and his interest in the tax code grew.

Before studying at Loyola Law School, Pamela Aaron ’16 feared her goal of practicing law in the United States wasn’t achievable. But Loyola Law School, she notes, felt tailor-made for international students, and the experience has given her the practical training and the confidence to pursue a law career in the United States.

Loyola’s second-place finish at the National Appellate Advocacy Competition included several honors. Katie Tanaka ’16 won ninth best oralist in the nation, and Nima Jalali ’16 received a rare perfect 100 during a round. The team progressed all the way to the final round, where they narrowly lost in a split decision.

For Joe Goldman ’15, Loyola Law School’s Tax LLM program gave him the skills and confidence needed to take his legal career in a different, and more positive, direction. After graduating from a well-known law school in 2008, Goldman began his legal career working as a litigator. But after five demanding years, Goldman decided the pervasive adversarial nature of litigation was not for him.

When Mary Demircift ’16 and Remington Maynard ’16 were hand-picked to be research assistants for Loyola’s Fashion Law Project (FLP) Executive Director Staci Riordan ’04, they instantly had a calling card to some of the biggest names in the fashion industry.

When evening student Yungmoon Chang ’16 decided to pursue a law degree six years into a successful career as a structural engineer, she was intent on finding a law school that allowed her to continue working full-time while pursuing legal opportunities. Loyola Law School’s Evening Division Program fit the bill – and more.

Earlier in the spring semester, Professor Hiro Aragaki was invited to join a distinguished delegation that traveled to Bangalore, India—a country whose judiciary currently suffers from a backlog of 30 million cases and where the average length of a case is 15 years. During trip, the delegates visited the Bangalore Mediation Centre, a court-annexed mediation program affiliated with the Bangalore High Court, where they held high-level meetings with several judges and court mediators.

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles is ranked No. 65 out of 196 law schools in U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” This marks the second consecutive year of double-digit ascent for Loyola, which saw the sharpest rise of any California law school.

A Los Angeles native, teacher Jennifer Carreras ‘19 is attending Loyola’s part-time evening program with the aim of using her JD degree to help children in need. By acquiring the proper legal knowledge base, Carreras believes she “can be the voice for people who don’t have a voice.”

Professor Michael Guttentag is closely following the first insider trading case to be considered by the U.S. Supreme Court in almost 20 years. In Salman v. U.S., the justices will consider when an insider’s tip to a friend or relative can trigger insider trading liability.